Language Festival in Bashkortostan

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Language is the best mediator for establishment of friendship and accord (Erasmus of Rotterdam).
Language is the environment where the world and " I " join together (H.G.Gadamer).
People seek to unite, and language is a peculiar catalyst for unification processes (V. Rusu).
The existence of people is tightly bound by their language (G. Bataille).
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order (A. France).
The world of language is as deep and infinite as the world of nature (V.L.Ibragimova).
Languages of different nations are just the facets of one diamond (V.D.Osipov).
Knowing many languages means to have a lot of keys to one lock (Voltaire).
To learn a language a desire is more important than necessity (St.Augustine).
The study of a foreign language is widening the scope of all we can learn in general (H.G.Gadamer).
The more languages you know the more of a person you are (A.P. Chechov).
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own (I. Goethe).
The greatest treasure of every nation is its language (M.A.Sholokhov).
To get some knowledge of a nation’s morals you should first learn its language (Pythagoras of Samos).
The language of a nation is the best, never fading and always blossoming flower of its spiritual life (K.D.Ushinsky).
Language is the vessel where national ideas and beliefs are cast, preserved and passed on (I.Gerder).
Language is an eternal stream, holding the new on the wave of the old (A.S.Sobolev).
The word is the greatest instrument of life (V.G. Korolenko).
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it (L. Wittgenstein).
Language is the ford of the river of time (V.M.Illich-Svitych).

News

15.06.2022

Dear Friends! We are pleased to invite you to participate in the Festival of Languages of the Peoples of Russia and Belarus, which will be held on December 20, 2022 at the Southwest State University (Russian Federation) and Polotsk State University (Republic of Belarus). We are waiting for your applications until December 12, 2022. Welcome!

21.04.2021

Dear friends! We invite you to the II International Linguistic Festival in Kursk that will be held on April 23-24, 2021.

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The I International Language Festival took place on September 23-24, 2011 in a conventional manner. 43 languages from various language families were represented by no more than two presentations. On the whole, the festival interested 88 participants from Ufa, Salavat, Sterlitamak, Neftekamsk, Moscow; Kazakhstan, Bulgaria, China, Germany, the Netherlands, Armenia, Vietnam, the Republic of Equatorial Guinea and other African countries. Students, school children, postgraduate students, professors and other members of cultural and educational or language institutions were also invited. During the 25-minute introductory lessons one could listen to the sound of a particular language, get acquainted with interesting facts of its structure, find out the history of its development, learn some phrases in the language and of course communicate with native speakers. As usual the presentations were held in different lecture halls simultaneously so that participants and guests could develop their own festival route. Because of the small number of assigned lecture halls the reports were combined into six workshops: “Languages of nations of Bashkortostan”, “Slavic chamber”, “East caravan of languages”, “English drawing room”, “European Language Union”, “Rainbow of the world’s languages”. This exciting marathon of language presentations ended with the closing ceremony where certificates of participation and small souvenirs were given to all the speakers and organizers. It was very pleasant to hear from the guests and participants numerous positive comments about the festival and kind advice concerning the future of the event. The Bashkir esperantist GafurGazizov even devoted the whole poem to the festival! It was our first experience, and we hope that many people liked it. We believe that it helped our participants and guests to realize one simple, but enduring truth: all of us are together – and this is the main thing!

List of 2011 Festival languages:

Indo-European languages

- Slavic (Bulgarian, Old Russian, Polish, Russian (children's speech), Russian dialects, Old Church Slavic, Croatian, Czech);

- Romance (Latin, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French);

- German (Australian, British and American English, German);

- Iranian (Persian, Tajik);

- Greek-Phrygian - Armenian (Armenian, Greek);

- Indo-Aryan languages (Bengali).

Turkic languages (Bashkir, Kazakh, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Chuvash).

Uralic languages

- Finno-Ugric (Mari, Udmurt).

Afroasiatic languages

- Semitic (Arabic, Hebrew);

- the Chadic languages (the Hausa language).

Congo- Kordofanian languages (Swahili, Bagirmi, Yorщbб, Bubi, Fang).

Austro-Asiatic languages (Vietnamese).

Sino-Tibetan languages (Chinese).

Japanese-Ryukyuan languages (Japanese).

Creole language Patois.

International Esperanto language.

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